POW Chapter 4: Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity
- Gendered racism: a form of oppression based both on gender and race/ethnicity
- People of color: umbrella term to refer to people
- Latinx: a Latin American person, unmarked by gender
- Umbrella term that is
- Asian Americans: Americans of Asian descent. Includes people from Indian subcontinent, people of Asian heritage are groups with people of Pacific Islander heritage.
- European Americans:
- Concept of race: a socially constructed system of human classification, once considered a biological concept referring to discrete and exclusive groups of people with common physical features.
- Problems with race as a biological concept: the assumptions that racial groups are distinct and exclusive
- Ethnic Group:
- European Americans are the norm: unjustified inference from an all-White sample to all people. The experiences of people of color are then marginalized and made invisible. White represent “people.” and everyone else becomes “subcultures”
- Bem Sex Role Inventory:
- Biased observations:
- Bias in interpretation of results: European American are the norm, so then behaviors and experiences of people of color are the deficit.
- Conceptual equivalence: In multicultural research, the construct measured by a scale has the same meaning in all cultures being studied.
- Translational equivalence:
- Racial microaggressions: subtle insults directed at people of color, consciously or unconsciously.
- Core values of Asian Americans:
- Bicultural competence:
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